Central Karetekas reign supreme

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KATHMANDU, July 26 – The selection matches in Karate for the upcoming 9th SAF Games concluded today as Central region players continued to stamp their authority over the discipline.

Central region player Rabi Maharjan won the 60 kg weight category beating Santosh Khadka of the Western region. Arun Bhujel of the Mahendra Police Club finished third in the same category.

Bhesh Bahadur Gurung won the title for Tribhuvan Club in the 55 kg weight category defeating Amrit Adhikari of the Central region. Ramesh Nepali, also from the Central region clinched the third place.

In the 65 kg weight category, Deepak Shrestha brought more pleasure to the Central region fans when he defeated Ram Krishna Shrestha of the Eastern Region. Jivan Malla managed to stand on third.

Likewise Dhoj Man Moktan bagged the title in the 70 kg weight category. Shyam Sundar Kunwar of Tribhuvan Club and Khem Bahadur Gurung of Mahendra Police Club finished second and third place respectively.

Fatta Bahadur Gurung took the maiden title for the Western Region in the 75 kg weight category. Ram Saran Twati of the Central Region managed second and Bharat BC of Mid-western Region placed third.

In the 80 kg weight category, Davendra KC won the day’s only title for Mahendra  Police Club as Gangadhar Poudel of Mid-western Region and Rakesh Shrestha of the Central Region finished second and third respectively.

Western Region grabbed more titles when Krishna Gurung stand first in the weight class for the over 80 kg. Hemanta Rai of the Eastern Region secured the second place while Nawaraj Maskey finished third.

Central Region also dominated all the events of Kata. In the single events, Ganga Ram Maharjan, Purna Balami and Subodh Singh Thakuri, all from Central region, respectively placed first, second and third.

In the team events, Central Region team (Bijaya Lama, Purna Balami and Subodh Singh Thakuri) showed supremacy over the Tribhuvan Club team, which was placed second while Nepal Police team won the third position.

The players in the top three positions are selected for the closed camp which will start shortly.

Police continue track dominance

KATHMANDU, July 26 (PR) – Mahendra Police Club continued its dominance in the Track and Field topping four of the five events on the second day of the selection matches for the upcoming 9th South Asian Federation (SAF) Games being held at the Dashrath Stadium.

The police team led the charts in the men’s 100 meters, 200 meters, women’s 200 meters and men’s Javelin throw while the other event of the day— men’s 1500 meters— went to Tribhuvan Club.

Ram Krishna Choudhary clocked 10.83 seconds to find the finish line first in the 100m. He was followed by Devi Bahadur Basnet and Khem Bahadur Khatri of Tribhuvan Club at the second and third place.

Khatri performed better in the 200 meters as he finished the race second to Lila Shrestha of the police team, who clocked 22.40 seconds. Arun Shrestha of Central region finished third in the event.

In the 1500 meters, the armymen took both the top spots leaving the policeman Yam Narayan Shrestha at the third spot. Rajendra Bhandari topped the race in 3min 59.85 seconds with Hut Bahadur Chhetri at the second spot.

Khurseed Ahmed Khan of Nepal Police won the javelin throw with a distance of 59.89 meters. With a throw of 55.71 meters, Dhirendra Jung Shah of Tribhuvan Club finished second while Narendra Jung Shah of Nepal Police was third.

Among the ladies, Bina Shrestha won the ladies 200 meters with a timing of 26.90 seconds while her teammate Chandra Kala Thapa finished 0.88 seconds behind her. Savitri Nepali of the Central region was third in the contest.